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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 9, Pages 3139-3142Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00319-11
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- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [20100021556]
- Chonnam National University Hospital Research Institute of Clinical Medicine [CRI10041]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [전06A1113, 2010-0021556] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Candida auris is a newly described species whose clinical significance is not clear. Here, we describe the first three cases of nosocomial fungemia caused by C. auris, which confirms that it is a causative agent of bloodstream infections. All three patients presented persistent fungemia for 10 to 31 days. The isolates obtained from the three patients were misidentified as Candida haemulonii and Rhodotorula glutinis by the Vitek 2 and the API 20C systems, respectively. C. auris was confirmed by sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region and D1/D2 regions of the 26S ribosomal DNA of the rRNA gene. The MIC ranges of amphotericin B (AMB), fluconazole (FLU), itraconazole, and voriconazole were 0.5 to 1, 2 to 128, 0.125 to 2, and 0.06 to 1 mu g/ml, respectively. All isolates were susceptible to caspofungin (MIC = 0.06 mu g/ml) and micafungin (MIC = 0.03 mu g/ml). One patient developed breakthrough fungemia while receiving FLU therapy, and two patients who received FLU therapy followed by AMB showed therapeutic failure and fatal outcomes. Our cases show that C. auris fungemia can be persistent, despite FLU or AMB therapy, which emphasizes the importance of accurately identifying this species.
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